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27 Should we follow your example, commit such a serious crime against our Elohim, and be unfaithful to him by marrying non-Israelite women?”

28 Even one of Joiada’s sons was a son-in-law of Sanballat from Beth Horon. (Joiada was the son of the chief priest Eliashib.) I chased Joiada’s son away from me.

29 Nehemiah prayed, “Remember them, my God, because they have contaminated the priestly office and the promise[a] you made to the priests and Levites.”

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 13:29 Or “covenant.”

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